Scott Nolan
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In that timeframe, China's doubled their grid and they were the same as us in 2010.
So they're now twice as big.
So that just shows you 15 years, you can double your grid if you want to.
And electricity production is highly linked to GDP.
And so if you want to grow your GDP, you grow energy production and you do things with that energy.
We could be far, far ahead of where we are, but what's the best time to plant a tree?
It's like 20 years ago or today.
So I think finally people are coming around to the fact that we need to grow the grid.
We need to do it with clean sources, scalable sources, reliable, and that's just nuclear.
And so I'd say it was in the last couple of years that politically there's been support
for nuclear, both under this administration and a bunch of recent actions that are going to be very helpful, as well as the prior administration.
And so we're finally seeing that unblock.
The prior administration was into nuclear as well?
Yeah, there was support for it.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, it's a couple of years ago really started
pushing on nuclear as something that needed to happen.
So there was a large desire for these new advanced reactors that are even safer than existing ones.
Existing ones are already the safest form of baseload energy, but even safer, smaller, easier to construct, hopefully much cheaper.
so there was a push around that starting a few years ago and in 2024 the last administration created a program for availability of that fuel for those reactors because all those reactors have no source of fuel right now other than